Strategic Deployment Plan - sacog

time roadway condition information, made available via STARNET, enabling businesses to
re­route or re­schedule commercial vehicles according to changing conditions on the
system. Not only will businesses benefit from improved freight movement, but also their
employees will have better access to jobs by focusing initial ITS improvements on
corridors that feed job centers in the region. Access improvement will come in the form of
improved transit service, as well as in the ability of TOCs to integrate operations across
jurisdictional boundaries. These interconnected TOCs will be able to maintain roadway
capacity during peak periods by facilitating faster accident clearing, adjusting signals to
smooth traffic flow, and providing alternate routes when needed.
6. EQUITY
Pursue a transportation system that addresses the needs of all people in all parts of
the region and assure that impacts of transportation projects don’t adversely affect
particular communities disproportionately.
Focusing ITS improvements on transit in corridors feeding job centers not only addresses
unmet transit needs in those corridors, but also helps balance investments made in
roadway improvements. While initial ITS deployments will be in select priority corridors;
they will nonetheless help expand and improve the transit system making it a more
attractive option for travelers. For those who are unable or unwilling to drive, these ITS
transit applications will noticeably improve the level of service in existing and new transit
corridors, providing greater frequency, timeliness, and easier transfers. These ITS
improvements will also help traffic engineers relieve congestion in many of the same
corridors by adding functionality that will reduce stop­and­go traffic conditions.
Consideration for bike and pedestrian movement can also be included making this a
comprehensive corridor improvement effort.
7. TRANSPORTATION AND LAND USE
Influence land use policies to improve access to jobs, services and housing to
everyone in the region by using market forces and the regulatory process.
ITS will be used to create BRT corridors like those planned for Stockton Blvd. and Watt
Ave. These new trunk line transit facilities can be targeted for transit oriented
development (TOD) improvements such as those that have come out of the Transit for
Livable Communities (TLC) effort at Regional Transit. Just as the TLC planning effort
focused on station area land use plans that would support light rail, a similar planning
effort can be undertaken for BRT corridors. Such an effort will explore how to densify
areas along BRT corridors via redevelopment and infill, thereby supporting transit and
helping to reduce sprawl.
8. FUNDING AND REVENUE
In order to adequately fund the Plan, develop appropriate, innovative, equitable,
and stable funding sources (both short­ and long­term) and identify cost­reduction
measures.
While ITS will have to compete with other projects for funding, TEA21 (and likely
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